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Show them, that would be but doing what has bwn going on in tht world tinea mankind began to emerge from the atone age. . , And our belief it that what Spain ia doing there ia only through the influence of Germany, and that the real objeo is to cripple France in her work. Three or four years ago when Germany carried her opposition to the work of France in Africa to the verge of war, and an arbitration forced her to cea.te her work, the world hoped the business waa settled, set-tled, but Alfonso of Spain ia half German and his queen was an English princess, and it ia possible that Germany is preparing for another arbitration in which Spain will occupy the place that Germany did ia the former arbitration, and that her hope is the former decision against her -rill be reversed in favor of Spain, and her design will . be accomplished. accom-plished. This may be mere speculation, but it has a probable look and our sympathies go with France. FRANCE. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. In -the present trouble- between Franca and Spain over Morocco, eur sympathies art all with Fiance, for two reason. Spain drove tht Moors, out of her dominion long ago, and through a century cen-tury of her great power and through three centuries cen-turies ainet haa done nothing to entitle her to any consideration oa the south shores oflht Mediterranean. Mediterra-nean. '. Op tht other hand, tht work for. good that Franco hss done in Africa canqot bt appreciated without first obtaining a clear knowledge of how sht found that land and how it ia today. ' Away on tht southern verge of the Sahara she is today establishing schools, and to the benighted creatures there, ia opening to their astonished tyts tbt first pages of the book of knowledge. If sht can from Algeria push her way into Morocco and gradually extend civilization over that country, she will be c Trying, vast benefits lo that people, and if in doing s me-would be obliged to kill some thousands ofj |